Mozy, for example, also offers a similar service (though for the higher price of $275 for up to 1.8 terabytes), and both Google and Amazon allow developers to send in drives to enable large amounts of data in their respective clouds.Īs IDrive’s CEO Raghu Kulkarni told me, the company originally thought that it would target this service at business users, but the team quickly realized that most personal users now also have very similar storage needs. The idea to use hard disks and FedEx or UPS to back up data is, of course, not new. IDrive Pro users, whose paid accounts start at $99.50 per year for 100GB of backup storage, can use the service once per year for free. The service, called IDrive Express, is available for a one-time fee of $59.99. After this, users can continue to use the company’s regular online backup service to send incremental updates to IDrive and, of course, restore their data from their cloud backup. The users then ship the drive back to IDrive and the company enables the data on their account. Instead of waiting around for days to upload what are often hundreds of gigabytes of data, IDrive now ships hard disks to its users so they can back up to a terabyte of data to the cloud. Online backup service IDrive today announced a new service that allows its users to back up large amounts of data to the cloud.

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